Sword Art Online 012 – Alicization Rising Chapter 7 – The Two Supervisors 26 The heroic words coming out from the mouth of the young, sweet girl rendered me speechless. But Cardinal continued ahead in a composed tone without the slightest twitch from her eyebrows. "The final attempt was a true pity. By releasing a sacred art with an exceptional offensive ability from among the entire lot, raining a continual tempest of lightning bolt strikes onto myself, even Administrator's enormous Life was reduced to a mere single digit. However, the main process then seized control over the body... With things in that state, any sort of injury or fatal wound was rendered null. She returned to as she always was in the blink of an eye with a full recovery sacred art ritual. Moreover, due to that incident, even with all she had, Administrator genuinely regarded me... in other words, the sub-process under her subconscious, as a danger. Upon noticing that the only times I could wedge myself into the right of control was when some conflict occurs within her fluct light... or simply put, during times of emotional distress, she tried an unthinkable method to hold me in." "Unthinkable...?" "Yes. Even if she was chosen as a sorceress of Stacia from birth, Administrator was a child of man. She possessed the emotions to look at flowers and think them beautiful or to listen to music and find it fun, at the very least. The emotional circuit she developed back then still remained in the depths of her soul even after turning into an absolute being, half-human and half-god. She judged that emotion was the source of her unrest whenever she encountered an unexpected event, however slight it might be. Therefore, she made free use of the supervisor-only commands to manipulate her fluct light within her light cube and suspended her own emotional circuit." "Wha... suspending her circuit, does that mean that she was basically destroying a part of her soul?"